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katana

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Tips on dealing with this?
« on: January 16, 2011, 04:50:01 pm »


Any tips on killing this thing?

... Do you think 3 guys with adamantine swords could pull it off?
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2011, 04:53:09 pm »
Depends on their skill and armor too. Or try to use a cave in if you think you can pull it off.
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2011, 04:54:13 pm »
I believe that a single naked, totally-unskilled, feeble peasant could kill it. One-shot it, in fact. Things made of hard-coded materials, like glass, ash, charcoal, vomit, water, and snow take on those things' lack of hardness values, which makes them comically easy to rend asunder. The only things made of such materials that you need to worry about are blobs, and that's just because they can only have a single body part and so can't actually be punched in half.

Since you appear to have actual soldiers, you've got nothing to worry about.
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2011, 04:56:34 pm »
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2011, 04:56:49 pm »
After some quick backup testing, my miner killed it but got stung in the process.

Send in teh archers.
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2011, 08:38:02 pm »
Composed of snow? Make it dodge into a pit of magma. Or bring the magma to the snow creature. Melt it away.
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2011, 02:12:13 am »
Quote from: katana on January 16, 2011, 04:56:49 pm
After some quick backup testing, my miner killed it but got stung in the process.

Send in teh archers.
Any interesting symptoms?  Did he die?
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #7 on: January 17, 2011, 02:46:14 am »
Quote from: katana on January 16, 2011, 04:56:49 pm
After some quick backup testing, my miner killed it but got stung in the process.

Send in teh archers.
What is this backup or this testing your are talking about?
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2011, 10:27:25 am »
I backed up a save file to randomly send a miner in. IDK what happened, his body was cut open anyway so he died before I could see results.

on the actual save file, it got killed in one shot by an iron spearman, who now has named that weapon.
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AND IF THIS FAILS MY IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHER WHO WILL APPEAR IN THE MIGRANT WAVE THAT ARRIVES AFTER MY DEMISE WILL REPLACE ME.
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2011, 10:49:53 am »
Well, it seems somebody was stung, will report back for results.

Currently seems numb.

and fever (edit)
« Last Edit: January 17, 2011, 10:51:58 am by katana »
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2011, 04:15:52 pm »
our thoughts are with your brave dwarf

yeah mega beats in general seem ridiculously easy to beat, I got an ocean titan that had a "thick" shell

it fell to 3 dwarfs 2 of which were recruits

on another mega beats fight a dwarf wrestler with it for 2 seconds and became a legendary wrestler.
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Re: Tips on dealing with this?
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2011, 05:12:20 pm »
And it seems ok.


You know, apart from the cut open arm.

BTW How much wood shots would it take to kill a bronze colossus? It's half cut open, both arms shot off. Must the head go or is there any other way?
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AND IF THIS FAILS MY IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHER WHO WILL APPEAR IN THE MIGRANT WAVE THAT ARRIVES AFTER MY DEMISE WILL REPLACE ME.
Quote from: Cthulufaic on September 06, 2012, 08:38:36 pm
(Tldr: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FRIENDLY FIRE SALT)